Cancer

A diagnostic procedure that involves removing a tissue sample from a patient.

• biopsy
• lipotripsy
• pathogenesis
• oncology

What is cancer?

• The heart does not receive enough blood.
• Sudden disruption of blood flow to part of the brain.
• Blood filled weak spot.
• Uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells.

Activities or choices that will affect your health.

• risk factors

• biogenetics

• healthy choices

• habits

Using drugs or medicines to destroy cancer cells.

• chemotherapy
• radiation therapy
• cancer surgery
• mitotic spindling

If someone in your family has had Cancer in the past you have what doctors call a:

• Predisposition

• Carcinogen

• Risk Factor

• Chemotherapy

Which type of tumor is being described:

Slow growing Not dangerous Does not spread

• Malignant

• Benign

Which type of tumor is being described below:

Spreads Dangerous Grows quickly

• Benign

• Malignant

These are examples of:

• Surgery
• Chemotherapy
• Radiation

• Treatments for Cancer

• Mutations

• Examples of Asexual Reproduction

• Types of Tumors

What is cancer?

• The cell cycle moves too slowly

• Mitosis is skipped in the cell cycle

• A cell enters into the G1 phase

• Uncontrolled growth of Cells

Tumors are...

• all malignant

• mass of abnormal cells that can grow uncontrollably

• usually benign

• always metastasizing